Hello Friends - I haven't given a lot of time to my posting habit these days, but I'm still here lurking almost daily on your feeds.
This winter has been much different from the last, in terms of things-the-universe-wants-from-me™.
Apparently, I'm supposed to transition back to cubie life 5 days a week, find a snazzy new home, get back in shape from, you know, the last two years, and find time for my addictions to network political dramas, the expanding Star Trek universe, A03, creating more and more tasty Asian flavored home cooked meals, obsessing over my new Vampire RPG character, and making new friends (cause lots of mine just moved away - damn you inevitable career advnacments as we hurdle towards middle age). Oh, and trying to turn my ceramic arts hobby into a thing where I don't bleed money.
In other news, I was able to spend a decent amount of time outdoors after the Missouri storms. I hope to show that to you...Just as soon as I work up the energy to keep moving my body after yesterday's hike. >_<
We have one in Missouri. The last time I visited Mastadon State Historic Site a few years ago, the giant sloth replica still stood.
Can we compile a list of all of the museums that have giant sloth statues? One of my side goals as an adult has been to take a picture with as many giant sloth statues as possible. I've already gotten the Natural History Museum, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the La Brea Tar Pits, and a few places in Chile. Clearly I need more, but you can't just google "list of places with giant sloth statues." Thank you for helping me with this important task.
‘Thistle’ is the common name for plants in 16 genera whose flowers conform to this general shape. Farmers world-wide hate them because they invade pastureland and herbivores won’t eat them because of their prickles. A number of species merit condemnation on the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia’s website. Most thistles look very much the same and thereby hangs a tale.
The Scotch thistle (Onopordum acanthium) is the national emblem of Scotland. According to legend, in the eight century a Norse raiding party was approaching a Scottish garrison when a bare-footed Viking stepped on a Scotch thistle and his cry of pain alerted the Scots and saved the day. The Scottish king, Alexander lll (1249 - 1286), declared the Scotch thistle the official emblem and it later acquired the motto, nemo me impune lacessit (’no one will provoke me with impunity’).